The majority of the Republican party in both branches of Congress was not advocating a more decided or more aggressive course with the South, during the months of January and February, than the Cabinet, with Judge Black at its head, was pursuing.

The time for executive acts of a more pronounced character was directly after the Presidential election, when the first symptoms of resistance to national authority were visible in the South.

If the new Cabinet had been then in power, the history of the civil revolt might have been different.

But the force that will arrest the first slow revolution of a wheel cannot stand before it when, by unchecked velocity, it has acquired a destructive momentum.

The measures which might have secured repression in November would only have produced explosion in January.
THE PRESIDENT'S NEW POSITION.
The change of position on the part of Mr.Buchanan was not left to inference, or to the personal assurance of the loyal men who composed his re-organized Cabinet.